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January

1/1/2012 The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney
1/1/2012 The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Ranch Wife byRee Drummond
1/2/2012 released by Susan Wingate
1/2/2012 Feed by Jerry McKinney
1/4/2012 Shadows of the Past byT.L. Lawrence
1/4/2012 Water for Elephants bySara Gruen
1/5/2012 The Seer of Shadows by Avi
1/7/2012 Neodruids: Volume One by Lark LaTroy
1/11/2012 The Stranger You Seek byAmanda Kyle Williams
1/11/2012 In Extremis byJerry McKinney
1/11/2012 Tock by Jerry McKinney
1/14/2012 Dragon Night by Stephanie Campbell
1/15/2012 Lie Canthropy by Jerry McKinney
1/16/2012 The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
1/20/2012 The Why Cafe by John P. Strelecky
1/21/2012 Blood Vines by Erica Spindler
1/22/2012 Teeth And Talons, A Horror Anthology bySamantha Combs
1/24/2012 Something Stirs by Thomas Smith
1/24/2012 Tears of Love by Jerry McKinney
1/26/2012 A Call from the Dark by Adam Deverell
1/27/2012 The Journey of Natty Gann by Ann Matthews
2/1/2012 Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
2/4/2012 Sleep No More by Greg Iles
2/4/2012 Abe by Jerry McKinney
2/8/2012 Born To Die by Lisa Jackson
2/11/2012 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
2/14/2012 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
2/15/2012 Be Mine by Sharon Kleve
2/15/2012 Christmas Spirit by Jerry McKinney
2/19/2912 The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
2/23/2012 The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
2/25/2012 A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
2/26/2012 The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone
2/29/2012 Takeover by Lisa Black
3/2/2012 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
3/3/2012 Casting Stones by G.M. Barlean
3/6/2012 Waiting to Forget by Sheila Kelly Welch
3/8/2012 Evidence of Murder byLisa Black
3/8/2012 The Emerald City by J.A. Beard
3/9/2012Defensive Wounds by Lisa Black
3/10/2012 The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry
3/14/2012 Trail Of Blood by Lisa Black
3/19/2012 Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
3/31/2012 These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf
3/31/2012 A Soft Place to Land by Susan Rebecca White
3/31/2012 The Dispatcherby Ryan David Jahn
4/4/2012Goliath by Susan Woodring
4/10/2012 Shelter by Frances Greenslade
4/15/2012 Going in Circles by Pamela Ribon
4/18/2012 Domers by David Couzins
4/22/2012 Pandora's Key byNancy Richardson Fischer
4/23/2012 Shades of Grey by Michael Cargill
4/25/2012 Paying the Piper by Simon Wood
4/29/2012 Dragged Into Darkness by Simon Wood
5/2/2012 Bobblehead Dad: 25 Life Lessons I Forgot I Knew byJim Higley
5/3/2012 Scary Mary byS.A. Hunter
5/4/2012 Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory
5/6/2012 The Zookeeper's Wife byDiane Ackerman
5/7/2012 Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
5/7/2012 Girl, Stolen byApril Henry
5/9/2012 The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
5/12/2012 The Mostly True Story of Jack by Kelly Barnhill
5/16/2012 All The Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison
5/22/2012 Jaguar Sun by Martha Bourke
5/24/2012 Fix by Force by Jason Warne
5/25/2012 Gentlemen by Michael Northrop
5/25/2012 Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
5/26/2012 Beastly by Alex Flinn
5/27/2012 Need by Carrie Jones
5/28/2012 Between by Jessica Warman
5/30/2012 Ashfall byMike Mullin
6/3/2012 Guantanamo Boy byAnna Perera
6/4/2012 Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
6/6/2012 Dirt by David Vann
6/8/2012Captivate byCarrie Jones
6/9/2012 Entice by Carrie Jones
6/10/2012 Where the Truth Lies by Jessica Warman
6/11/2012 Way Past Midnight by Samantha Combs
6/13/2012 Loving the Rain by Jeff LaFerney
6/15/2012 Skeleton Key by Jeff LaFerney
6/16/2012 Dark Parties by Sara Grant
6/17/2012 Breathless by Jessica Warman
6/20/2012 Saving June by Hannah Harrington
6/22/2012 Lisa, Bright and Dark by John Neufeld
6/24/2012 On the Beach by Nevil Shute
6/25/2012 Fall for Anything by Courtney Summers
6/27/2012 I'll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan
6/28/2012 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
6/30/2012 When the Sea is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen
7/2/2012 Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
7/4/2102 Endure by Carrie Jones
7/6/2012 The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher
7/8/2012 Bulletproof by Jeff LaFerney
7/10/2012 Flesh & Blood by Jerry McKinney
7/10/2012 Between by Mary Ting
7/18/2012 Sleep Stalkers by Jacki O'Dierno
7/22/2012 Eve by Anna Carey
7/27/2012 The Girls of No Return by Erin Saldin
8/4/2012 Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
8/6/2012 The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
8/8/2012 The Light in the Forest byConrad Richter
8/11/2012 The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
8/15/2012 Zia by Scott O'Dell
8/16/2012 Lucy in the Sky by Anonymous
8/18/2012 All the Right Stuff by Walter Dean Myers
8/20/2012 Quarantine: The Loners by Lex Thomas
8/22/2012 The Unquiet by Jeannine Garsee
8/26/2012 Perfect Escape by Jennifer Brown
8/27/2012 The Downside of Being Charlie by Jenny Torres Sanchez
8/28/2012 Beautiful Lies by Jessica Warman
9/3/2012 The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse
9/5/2012 Black Mirror by Nancy Werlin

Yearly Challenges:

Every 3rd book read has to be book I have "on hand"

Every 4th book read has to be a Nook book I already have downloaded.

Read at least 80 books by year end - at least.

Expand into different genres- fantasy, western, historical, etc.

2012 Goal: Fill in the slots with book titles or authors names that begin with:


S-Something Stirs by Thomas Smith
A- A Call from the Dark by Adam Deverell
N- book:The Night Circus|9361589] by Erin Morgenstern
D-Dragon Night by Stephanie Campbell
Y- The Why Cafe by John P. Strelecky

S- Sleep No More by Greg Iles
T- Tock by Jerry McKinney
E- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
C- Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
K- The Kitchen House byKathleen Grissom
L- Loving the Rain by Jeff LaFerney
E- Evidence of Murder by Lisa Black
R- Pamela Ribon book [book:Going in Circles|73129333

New Authors - 12 for the year

1- Erica Spindler in Blood Vines
2. Erin Morgenstern in The Night Circus
3. Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
4. Margot Livesey in The Flight of Gemma Hardy
5. Susan Woodring in Goliath
6. Ben Loory in Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
7. Cheryl Rainfield in Scars
8. Nancy Werlin in The Rules of Survival
9. Jason Warne in Fix by Force
10. Carrie Jones in Captivate,Need, Entice
11. Jessica Warman in Where the Truth Lies, Between and Breathless and Beautiful Lies
12. Nevil Shute in On the Beach
13. Holly Goldberg Sloan in I'll Be There
14. Johan Harstad in 172 Hours on the Moon
15. Lauren Oliver in Before I Fall
16. Erin Saldin in The Girls of No Return
17. Jenny Torres Sanchez in The Downside of Being Charlie

Finished Nook books in 2012

In Extremis
Something Stirs
Dragon Night
released
Tears of Love
Feed
Lie Canthropy
The Story Sisters
Bobblehead Dad: 25 Life Lessons I Forgot I Knew
Scary Mary

Genre's for 2012

1. Cookbook The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Ranch Wife by Ree Drummond
2. Fiction Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
3. Game related s.f. Dragon Night by Stephanie Campbell
4. YA A Call From the Dark by Adam Deverell
5. Horror Feed by Jerry McKinney
6. Biography memoir A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
7. Historical fiction adult - The Kitchen House
8. Forensic crime- Defensive Wounds
9. Paranormal romance- Be Mine
10. Dark Fantasy- Primal Thirst
11. Hauntings Fantasy - Christmas Spirit
12. Historical Fantasy - The Seer of Shadows
13. Quiet horror Teeth And Talons, A Horror Anthology
14. Splatter horror - Death Bonds
15. Supernatural menace horror- Something Stirs
16. Zombie horror - In Extremis
17. Action thriller - Shadows of the Past
18. Erotic thriller - Sleep No More
19. Historical thriller - Child 44
20. Psychological thriller - Never Knowing
21. Romantic thriller - Blood Vines
22. Technological S.F. - The Future of Us
23. Alternate history s.f. - 11/22/63
24. Children's fantasy s.f.-The Sixty-Eight Rooms
25. Self help -The Why Cafe
26. Magical s.f.- The Night Circus
27. Romance s.f. - Ghostly
28. Superheroes s.f. -Neodruids
29. Young adults s.f. -The Emerald City
30. Romantic crime- Born To Die
31. Realistic fiction YA- Waiting to Forget, Carry Me Down
32. Realistic fiction - Casting Stones
33. Historical fiction YA - Journey of Natty Gann
34. Forensic Crime - Trail Of Blood
35. Crime Thriller- The Dispatcher
36. Dystopian- Domers
37. Weird Tales Horro- Dragged Into Darkness
38. Young Adult Horror- Scary Mary
39. Fantasy Mythology- Jaguar Sun
40. Young Adult Romance- Beastly
41. Post-Apocalyptic - On the Beach

March Challenges:

1. Small Press Month-Read a book published by a small publisher. Waiting to Forget

April Challenges:

1. Tax Day-Read a book where one of the authors initials is I,R or S. Simon Wood book Dragged Into Darkness

May Challenges:

1.Read a book that you've been unsure of reading for fear you may not enjoy it. Jaguar Sun this was my first shifter book - totally new concept for me.

June Challenge:

1. June Solstice/First Day of Summer (June 20th)- Read a book with a "summery" cover, takes place in the summer or the word summer appears in the title. You may also read a book in which summer time events occur such as swimming, picnics, carnivals, trips to the beach etc.
On the Beach - they took a lot of picnics and spent a lot outdoors